#witherward

[eliotquillon]

going through storygraph reviews of wayward because i’m sick and twisted and one of them mentions the ending of witherward featuring…ollivan showing back up???? girl i don’t know what kind of universe you live in but boy i wish it were mine!

[cassiasims]

list of top 10 noncanon witherward universe ships as cooked up by tumblr user cee cassiasims:

1) eliot/ollivan. the og ‘wouldn’t it be funny’ rarepair. in an imaginary universe with witherward book 3 where they inevitably would’ve met (ollivan self-exiling to france and eliot daydreaming about visiting paris/mentioning how easy it is to dimension hop back to the witherward using portals in other countries is Not a coincidence) i would be so fucking insufferable about them. i am already insufferable about them. them having sex would make everyone’s lives worse including their own and i cannot help but root for it

2) ollivan/virgil/lev. far more problematic than ollivan/virgil (which will also appear on this list) for the sole reason of dragging lev into it. exists purely in my mind as a one off threesome that temporarily ruins ollivan’s friendship with them both and makes everything worse overall, much to lev’s disappointment. also virgil being the centre of a love triangle is just a really funny concept to me so

3) eliot/cassia. let’s just set aside the fact that cassia is a comphet lesbian for a moment. or maybe don’t! so many fun flavours for this one. hooking up all along while she’s with gedeon….right person wrong time….unrequited crush on eliot’s end that just leads to resentment….just walk with me for a moment. eliot/cassia is like the stem cell of witherward ships it can be anything you want it to be 💜

4) hester/alana. PROBLEMATIC AGE GAP YURI now cheer. ok yeah i guess alana could’ve had ollivan and cassia young and maybe the gap isn’t that big but still. i think they have messy hate sex and also i think hester is a stone top. came to me in a dream. technically they were in a room together that one time at fisk’s ball so it’s possible!!!

5) ollivan/virgil. really important to me that everyone knows this was canon TO ME given ollivan’s weird fucking resentment over virgil “abandoning” him to get a boyfriend but we’ll work with the letter of the law here. in my head this is a deliberate foil to the canon onesided jasper/ollivan with ollivan being in unrequited love with boybestie virgil. and also i think they fooled around a bit before virgil started seeing lev but neither of them deeped it that much. honestly this ship is like the foundation that enabled all my other non-canon insanity so we have a lot to thank it for

6) eliot/fowler. hatesex + the inherent eroticism of fucking your father’s murderer. makes so much sense it’s almost boring. next

7) ilsa/cassia. a bit weird since ilsa is famously the sister of cassia’s ex but that’s kind of a recurrent problem with the femslash ships in this series so i just ignore it. cassia canonically has a huge friendcrush on ilsa it isn’t hard to take it from there. see eliot/fowler on ‘makes so much sense it’s almost boring.’ next!

8) sybella/lev/virgil. another ship that exists because i think it’d be funny to psychologically torture ollivan (lev and virgil finally open their relationship but to his EX and not him). but also there’s a vision here…ollivan did promise society secretary to lev and virgil and presumably they got the position when sybella got promoted to president after ollivan left. and they do search camden together as a group of 3 in wayward. i think virgil is honestly just lev-sexual but if he’s tolerating any third it’s sybella tbh they have complementary personalities. and also it’s funny

9) sybella/cassia: another ‘let’s give ollivan psychic damage’ ship, this time with his ex gf and his baby sister. but also there’s roots here…sybella and cassia genuinely do have a lot in common and sybella advocates for cassia a lot in wayward. and also i think cassia needs someone firm to shock her into her gay awakening. did i mention it’d kill ollivan

10) eliot/cassia/gedeon: maybe polyamory could’ve saved them. probably not but it’s fun to try. plus you can call them the zoo trio and that’s so cute. if this were going down a canon friendly slant it’d be eliot as cassia and gedeon’s third but idgaf. in my fantasy world gedeon waits hopefully outside cassia’s bedroom door in case she graciously allows him to be her and eliot’s third once in a blue moon. and that should be respected.

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[adammcilqueen]

New Waterstones in East Belfast 😍 had to head down and get a haul.

[jitters-art]

a commission for an IG user of two characters from the novel witherward

[ ID: two digital drawings. the only difference is one has a dark grey background and the other a light grey background. the drawing is a half body drawing of two people, a man eliot and a woman hestor stand back to back. eliot is a white teenager with blue eyes. he has medium length messy black hair and an earring with a red gemstone. he wears a white shirt with puffy long sleeves. theres a line of lace detailing down the sleeves, and a frilly lace piece around his wrists. he has red wraps around his wrists before the frills. he wears a red jabot with detailing. this is held with a gold clip with a red gemstone. he has a black vest with gold buttons and black pants. he has one hand to his chest. hestor is a white woman with hazel eyes and a couple moles. she has caramel blond hair pulled back into a chignon with a red hairpiece above the bun. she has on a black lace choker with red ruffles, gold beads and a gold earring. she wears a red puffy long sleeve dress with lace detailing down the sleeve and a frilly lace piece around her wrist. she has a black wrap around her wrist above the frills. the chest of her dress is black lace with 3 gold beads. she is wearing a black corset with detailing. her nails are painted red and she is holding a cigarette in a silver cigarette holder. they both look solemn. above eliots head is a white pawn chess piece and above hestors is a white queen chess piece. at the top is a quote that reads ‘His queen. Her loyal soldier. You don’t hate him, then. I dont know.’ the last two sentences are in italics. END ID. ]

[kiras-monkey-bum-face]

cassia and sybella letting ollivan fuck off and sorting the problem themselves, absolutely love that for them

[buecherbummlerin]

Top 5 Books 2021

1. 4321 by Paul Auster

Paul Auster blew my mind with this extraordinary masterpiece. The character Ferguson and Paul Austers style of writing instantly captives the reader.  The reader accompanies  Ferguson in four varied and complex variations of him and his life. Each variation takes different turns and shows how a life can change with the smallest decisions and actions. This is one of the best books I have ever read!

2. The Beekeper of Aleppo by  Christy Lefteri

This book touched me deeply and has a special place in my heart. I couldn’t stop thinking about this remarkable story. The beekeeper of Aleppo portrays heartbreakingly and very realistic what Syrian refugees go through on their escape from war and their search for a new life. This is a must read. 

3. Witherward by Hannah Mathewson 

This is a great book for all the fantasy lovers out there and exactly the kind of fantasy book I was looking for. I loved Witherward with its rich, mystic and complex storytelling. The world, magic and characters convince with a lot of complexity and depths. This book never gets boring and there are many thrilling and dark aspects about the world and its characters to discover. Big recommendation.

4. Couchsurfing in Saudi-Arabien by Stephan Orth

Wie immer hat mich Stephan Orths Reiseabenteuer in den Bann gezogen.Mit Couchsurfing in Saudi-Arabien nimmt der Autor den Leser mit auf seine bisher wohl ungewöhnlichste Reise. Mit Saudi-Arabien reist Stephan Orth durch ein Land, dass so unbekannt und rätselhaft erscheint, wie kein anderes. Damit bringt er das Land, die Kultur und die Menschen dem Rest der Welt etwas näher. Wer bisher noch kein Couchsurfing-Buch gelesen hat, sollte schnellstmöglich damit anfangen. (This book is only available in German right now)

5. Vicious by V.E. Schwab 

Vicious is a thrilling fantasy book that takes a look at a different side of the super hero myth. V.E. Schwab created a dark atmosphere in this book by dealing with the topic of good and bad. Sometimes it is not so easy to choose between good and bad. What seems good first might turn out to be bad afterwards and vice versa. The question is where to draw the line and who decides what is good or bad, right? A great fantasy book that distinguishes itself from other fantasy books with its unique stroy and characters. 

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Witherward by Hannah Mathewson

New Review: Witherward by Hannah Mathewson #fantasy #review @TitanBooks

Welcome to the Witherward, and to a London that is not quite like our own. Here, it’s summertime in February, the Underground is a cavern of wonders and magic fills the streets. But this London is a city divided, split between six rival magical factions, each with their own extraordinary talents – and the alpha of the Changelings, Gedeon Ravenswood, has gone rogue, threatening the fragile accords…

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